FBI database links long-haul truckers, serial killings

By Scott Glover Los Angeles Times

This map shows the more than 500 cases in the Highway Serial Killings Initiative database; the red dots mark where bodies or remains have been found along highways over the past 30 years.(Photo courtesy of FBI.gov)

WASHINGTON — The FBI suspects that serial killers working as long-haul truckers are responsible for the slayings of hundreds of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists whose bodies have been dumped near highways over the last three decades.